Eli Bendersky added the comment:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Barry A. Warsaw <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
>
> Barry A. Warsaw added the comment:
>
> On Jun 22, 2013, at 01:08 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> >Can I vote for something like "__builtin__" as the protocol, rather than
> >something entirely specific to serialisation? As in "return the most
> >appropriate builtin type with the same value"? Then a converter
> >("operator.builtin"?) could coerce builtin subclasses to their base
> classes
> >by default, rather than needing to implement the protocol on every type.
>
> Such a protocol needs a way to deserialize as well. You can't necessarily
> assume (or shouldn't impose) that the __init__() can do that conversion.
> In
> any case...
>
> >Such a design would need a PEP, of course.
>
> ...yes, definitely.
Practically speaking, what should be done to make enum play well with JSON
without writing new PEPs? I think we still want to convert those stdlib
constants to IntEnums...
Eli
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